In the Belly of the Dragon (French: Dans le ventre du dragon) is a Canadian comedy science fiction film, directed by Yves Simoneau and released in 1989.
[2] The film stars David La Haye as Lou, an aimless slacker who is dissatisfied with his job distributing flyers around the city, and signs up to be a drug testing subject for two mysterious scientists (Monique Mercure and Marie Tifo); meanwhile, his delivery colleagues Steve (Rémy Girard) and Bozo (Michel Côté) must team up to find and rescue him before the medical experiments go horribly wrong.
[3] The cast also includes Andrée Lachapelle, Pierre Curzi, Jean-Louis Millette, Roy Dupuis, Angèle Coutu, Suzanne Champagne and Pierrette Robitaille.
The film set what was at the time Quebec's all-time record for box office receipts in the first three days of release[4] and was the third-highest-grossing film in Canada for the year with a gross of C$1.16 million.
[1] Simoneau subsequently moved into English-language film and television production, and did not make another French-language film for the Quebec market until The Bait (L'Appât) in 2010.